Ye see, ez I wuz a sayin, bills is baoun tew come
daown anyhow ony if they comes daown regler, cordin tew law,
everybody'll know what t'expect, and nobody won' lose nothin."
"Praps the convenshun what's a sittin up tew Lenox'll rekummen them
bills," hopefully suggested a farmer who had been taking in Ezra's
wisdom with open mouth.
"I don' s'pose that it'll make any odds how many bills are printed as
far's we're concerned," said Hubbard, bitterly. "The lawyers'll make
out to git em all pretty soon. Ye might's well try to fat a hog with a
tape worm in him, as to make folks rich as long as there are any
lawyers round."
"Yas, an jestices' fees, an sheriff fees is baout ez bad ez lawyer's,"
said Israel Goodrich, whose countenance was beginning to glow from the
influence of his potations. "I tell you wesh'd be a dern sight better
off 'f'all the courts wuz stopped. Most on ye is young fellers, 'cept
you Elnathan Hamlin, thar. He'll tell ye, ez I tell ye, that this air
caounty never seen sech good times, spite on'ts bein war times, ez
long fur '74 to '80, arter we'd stopped the King's courts from sittin
an afore we'd voted for the new constitution o' the state, ez we wuz
durn fools fer doin of, ef I dew say it.
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